Upcoming Shows

Sold out through December 17! We have been successful getting people tickets through our wait lists for nearly every performance. We truly do want you to experience Learning Curve! To receive announcements if we are able to add more performances, make sure you’re on our email list and follow us on Facebook.

Learning Curve is an immersive performance that places you within the walls of a Chicago public high school and in the shoes of its students. With each step, you’ll experience the real-life triumphs and struggles of students, teachers and parents during the years that hopefully lead to a high school diploma.

Learning Curve is not recommended for audience members who are uncomfortable standing, walking, or climbing stairs. Children under 14 will not be admitted.

Learning Curve is produced in association with Goodman Theatre. The Lead Production Sponsor is Impact 100 Chicago.

Reviews for Learning Curve

"A once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event! An altogether wondrous, one-of-a-kind, 'immersive' masterwork. The show captures life in a Chicago public high school in ways that are so real, yet so imaginative — so disturbing, and at the same time so life-confirming — that you want to grab hold of every politician and school bureaucrat and say: Experience this show, and then do something."

Learning Curve is both a scathing indictment of a defective system and a tender study of the awesome awakening that makes being a teen-ager so frightening and fun. It’s rare that such a public conversation about education is facilitated by students, the silent shareholders. For audience members far removed from adolescence and professionally uninvolved in the day-to-day public-school machine, the production’s intensely personal portrait of a modern urban school district is startling.

"[T]his outstanding and unforgettable production...is a vital reminder that for many people in our city and elsewhere, young or otherwise, the ongoing conversations on race, education and social justice are not simply theoretical. They are practical and of paramount importance."

Chicago Reader//Aimee Levitt: In a lot of ways, Ellen Gates Starr High School in Logan Square isn’t much different from other CPS neighborhood schools. Enrollment and funding are down, and the school is on probation: the results of standardized tests from this year, currently in session, will determine whether it stays open.

Chicago Sun-Times//Hedy Weiss: Think of it as a fantasia on life in a Chicago public high school, performed throughout the three floors of an actual school building by actors who are either still in high school or have just begun college.